BAHA'I MYSTICS

Guidance

"O thou who hast soared to the realm of guidance and ascended to the kingdom of virtue!
Shouldst thou desire to apprehend these celestial allusions, to witness the mysteries
of divine knowledge, and to become acquainted with His all-encompassing Word, then it
behoveth thine eminence to inquire into these and other questions pertaining to thine
origin and ultimate goal from those whom God hath made to be the Wellspring of His
knowledge, the Heaven of His wisdom, and the Ark of His mysteries. For were it not for
those effulgent Lights that shine above the horizon of His Essence, the people would
know not their left hand from their right, how much less could they scale the heights
of the inner realities or probe the depths of their subtleties! We beseech God therefore
to immerse us in these surging seas, to grace us with the presence of these
life-bearing breezes, and to cause us to abide in these divine and lofty precincts.
Perchance we may divest ourselves of all that we have taken from each other and strip
ourselves of such borrowed garments as we have stolen from our fellow men, that He may
attire us instead with the robe of His mercy and the raiment of His guidance, and admit
us into the city of knowledge."